Commission meeting of the San Francisco entertainment admission. I am ben bleiman, commission president. If you are a member of the public, there are speaker cards. You can hand them to the staff or come to the microphone for Public Comment. We ask you to turn off cell phones or put them on silence. Thank you to sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this meeting with the public. We start with a roll call. roll call . President bleiman the next item. Any Public Comment for items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next item on the agenda is item two, approval of minutes from may 21, 2019. Do we have a motion on the approval of those minutes . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Commissioner perez we need to have Public Comment on the approval of minutes. Comment is closed. roll call . The minutes have been and proved. Next item report from executive director. Good evening, president blieman, hello, commissioners. I had a place holder on my agenda item for the streamlining legislation the office of economic and Work Force Development has been working diligently on for quite some time. You have heard about it at commission several times at this point. Unfortunately it was not heard at land use yesterday. It will be heard on monday, the 17th. We are very hopeful i it will passthrough land use this time around. It seems as the person managing this project worked well alongside with the Land Use Committee to address any of their concerns and advances the committee hearing. That is all that i have to report on this evening. I am hopeful to have an update for you all on the 18th, which is our next hearing, to address or give you an update on our new hire. I cant give you anything public on that at this time. Im sorry about that. Thank you very much for the report. Any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Next is item 4. Which is a report from Deputy Director azavedo. In the enforcement report this evening i have a couple of highlighted yellow squares to bring to your attention. I am happy to answer further questions. I want to let you know about the bar that has been on the Enforcement Teams radar due to complaints through 311. It is not permitted by us nor are they stoned for a place of entertainment. They dont have an active health permit. They are operating out of compliance. We are keeping them on the radar. I have spoken with the manager. The owner is out of the country. I informed him of the zoning restrictions and that they are required to have a permit to operate. We did receive three complaints. I did want to bring that to your attention. On on page 5, oracle park there was another Fireworks Show on a monday evening. We got the complaints no, it was on tuesday. Just letting you know that we did receive a handful of complaints. They were in compliance with the new ordinance that they created for themselves about fireworks ending times. I did forward it to our contact. There was one complainant who was not anonymous. I forwarded the fireworks policy to them directly, and i did not hear back. Next is page 9 of the report. They had their first weekend 2 00 a. M. Event which they are allowed to do friday and saturday unlimited. Our inspector was out in the field. He did stop by not because of the complaint but because he was in the field and wanted to check it out. They had been given a sound limit. He was stopping by. I did hear from the owner they had three residents from the Heartland Hotel and made comments about the sound. It should be noted that k un gfu laundry was operating. It was hard to tell the loitering people who they were patrons of. It looks like a hotspot to hang out, and that he did say they were in compliance with security and they only had about 35 people in the show. I have been in contact with the owner. I do intend to go to one of the future mediation meetings toasted down and talk with the owners and the hotel residents. Those are the only highlighted items i have. I am happy to answer any questions for you. Hello. Quick question. On page 6, there is the midnight sun. There was a term sea weighted limit on page 13. When the sound inspectors take a sound reading to establish a limit. The a waiting is for volume and c is for base. It is the frequencies. A lot of permits that were created a long a long time agot have c limits. We hear the bass is too loud so we are reissuing. Rx4109, do they have a doorman outside to keep people in control . Yes, they did have a Security Guard out front, and they were doing their best to keep the kung fu laundry away from the venue. The owners went to kung fu laundry and said can you please control what is going on in front of your bar . There was not much resolved from those conversations. Kung fu laundry dont have a poe. No live entertainment. Just gathering. Okay. Hotel San Francisco. They havent finished the building inspection is that why they didnt get the permit yet . Correct. We are waiting to hear from health and fire. They have gotten a couple of onetime events. They were also operating without a permit, yes. Thank you. Hi. I am curious about revolution cafe and makeout room. Is it the same complainant . They are next to each other. They are always anonymous. That is too bad. It is too bad. We have been working in that area to try to solve the problem, makeout rooms did just get a new sound limit. We have been really checking up on when complaints come in, he checks both because they are so close. Is it a higher sound limit . It was. They didnt have a c waited limit, too. Is that neighbor, if you are watching make yourself not anonymous so we can help you. It is tricky when we cant figure out what they are hearing. The owner told the inspector the owner of revolution cafe there is an alley nearby and they are loitering there but they are not patrons of the revolution cafe. They are pinned for loitering. Maybe when he is out there he can see if that is the case, but we want them to close the doors and windows. Do they have security that is actively trying to encourage people to leave their zone . They have recently during the inspections when the inspector has gone out they had a staff person at the door. That is something. I mean i guess we could double up encouragement. They might not be patrons of the venue they are in the vicinity and they should move those folks along, too. Thank you. I dont have any questions. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on the Deputy Directors report . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Next is item 5 Police Department comments and questions. I dont see any Police Officers here. This etim is closed as well. Next agenda item is 6. Hear everything and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission. We will begin with the consent calendar to be acted on by a single vote unless there are comments. There will be no time for discussion. Please introduce the item tonight. Thank you. The applicant this evening is is applying to amount the existing to include outdoor entertainment. The applicant held an llp since may 2014 and no noise complaints are on record. They are host entertainment inside the premises. If granted amendment there will be bands and djs on the patio. They mailed letters in english and spanish. They received no opposition from the public and received one letter of support from a neighboring business. They must comply with the outdoor sound regulation. With no added conditions they recommend revising one of the existing permit conditions on the current llp permit. You can see that on the back of the memo here. That is the explanation of tonights consent agenda. I am happy to answer any questions. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Any Public Comment on this agenda item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. A vote. roll call . Congratulations the amendment is approved please follow up for the next steps. Thank you for coming in. That was ai a quick one. Item 7. I will go first. I want to make sure you saw the news where after telling them they would allow them to continue to operate toward the end of the year, the busiest time and makes up a substantial part of the revenues. The landlord reneged on the offer. We have been in touch with supervisor heavsupervise haney. We may hear more in the near future. We have spoken with his office on creative ways to try to stem the destruction to the nightlife we are seeing in the city right now, and from that office they seem open to exploring possibilities hopefully with no unintended consequences. It is important to point out the city is wrecking havoc on nightlife. We need to work very hard to make sure we are not losing cultural institutions and becoming the city that the New York Times seems to think we are every time they public an article about us. That is what i want to say. Any other comments or questions . It is june. Happy gay pride month. It is also Philippine Independence Day month. Looking forward to celebrating diversity tha here in san franco and the bay area. This is how i find out who watching the Entertainment Commission meetings. I want people to know i am in the process of changing jobs. I will be leaves on june 14th to start position every deduction policy at the aids foundation on july 1st. My Harm Reduction and Public Health agenda at the entertainment will continue. You can look forward to hearing more from me as we move forward. Congratulations. Any Public Comment on the commissioners questions and comments. Public comment is closed. We set a new record. 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He is so committed to building relationships within the team in terms of his organizing the annual barbecue and the work going into that is not well understood, weeks and weeks of planning and buying food and cooking. He is an anchor for the rest of the team. We have a responsibility to the city for being effective and making sure we are as efficient as we can be. That is important. Victor deserves the golden pride award for dedication and commitment and the quality of work that he does every day. It is important we acknowledge that and recognize it publicly. I am the principal Information Systems engineer. All right. Hello, sunny day. [cheers. ] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. I am sorry for those we dont have chairs for. We didnt expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. I am so glad to see the residents here. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the tours earlier of the unit. Today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. As someone who grew up in Public Housing, i have lived these conditions. I know these conditions. I dont expect everyone to understand the challenges of Public Housing the way that i do or the way the residents of sunny dale do, but i do expect everyone to put in the time to understand. I wanted department heading and elected officials to come see for yourselves the hard work that we have to do. Thank you to everyone who joined me today, especially the members of the board of supervisors and we have the president with us, norman yee, thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you for being with us. Supervissupervisor per visor gor and earlier we had supervisor safai, and he had to take off. Why arent you in your seat . 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